{"id":45458,"date":"2026-08-14T22:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45458"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:20:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-1136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-1136\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Leucism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li value=\"1\">Leucism is a condition with a partial loss of pigment in the skin, fur, or feathers.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">The eyes remain unaffected, retaining normal pigmentation (typically black or pigmented).<\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">This condition is caused by a genetic anomaly, usually recessive in nature.<em> [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeksforgeeks.org\/biology\/difference-between-albinism-melanism-and-leucism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GeeksForGeeks<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in this news report, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/photographer-captures-rare-white-loon-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Photographer captures rare white loon in Canada<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Jeff Wagner, <em><strong>CBS Minnesota<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dale Gentry, the director of conservation for Audubon Upper Mississippi River, said it&#8217;s shocking to see a loon with such a color. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen one in person, and I&#8217;ve only seen pictures on the internet,&#8221; said Gentry. &#8220;Albinism and a leucistic bird, they have some sort of genetic change that influences the genes that code for a pigment in their feathers called melanin.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pictures at the <em><strong>CBS Minnesota<\/strong><\/em> link, above. If you know loons, the photos are a trifle shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leucism: Leucism is a condition with a partial loss of pigment in the skin, fur, or feathers. The eyes remain unaffected, retaining normal pigmentation (typically black or pigmented). This condition is caused by a genetic anomaly, usually recessive in nature. [GeeksForGeeks] Noted in this news report, &#8220;Photographer captures rare white \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-1136\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45459,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45458\/revisions\/45459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}